The Latest Breaking News from Bill Self

They call the drill block-out-break, and in its simplest description, the concept is to grab a rebound and get the ball down the floor.

LAWRENCE, Kan. — No. 6-ranked Kansas completed a regular-season home-and-home sweep of the Big 12 Conference schools from Oklahoma on Monday night by upending Oklahoma State, 76-62, at Allen Fieldhouse.

Before his team played Kentucky on Saturday night, Kansas coach Bill Self attributed Oscar Tshiebwe’s almost surreal productive play this season to having room to operate around the basket.

LAWRENCE, Kan. — Texas Tech's men's basketball team, which defeated Kansas 75-67 on Jan. 8 in Lubbock, Texas, on Monday night will attempt to become just the third Big 12 Conference team to sweep a regular-season home-and-home series from the Jayhawks in the 19-year Bill Self era.

MANHATTAN, Kan. — Bill Self tried to focus on the Kansas men’s basketball game against Kansas State and nothing else on Saturday afternoon, just two days after the death of his dad, Bill Self Sr.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Only a year after Englishman Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile in May 1954, crashing through an invisible, tantalizing and once-immovable barrier, three men did the same in a single race. Some 1,500 would eventually follow.